IEThe Irish Times
Restricted courses: It’s difficult when everyone around you is going, ‘oh, you’ll get in’
Students typically apply for restricted courses earlier in the CAO process
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- 25 Aug 2026, 05:11 UTC
- Last checked
- 25 Aug 2026, 10:12 UTC
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- 1 version
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 25 Aug 2026, 05:01 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Jen Hogan
- Section
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Students typically apply for restricted courses earlier in the CAO process
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Restricted courses: It’s difficult when everyone around you is going, ‘oh, you’ll get in’
Students typically apply for restricted courses earlier in the CAO process
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- #2258
- Observed
- 25 Aug 2026, 05:11 UTC
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- 633,392 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
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- metadata and excerpt